The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-09-15
IN THE APIARY.
BY WIN. B. TREADWELL.

BY WIN. B. TREADWELL.
Successful wintering of bees depends,
to a great extent, on their management
this month. Late, unsealed honey is poor
food for winter, and should never be used
for feeding purposes. If extracting be
continued late, there is more OF less dam
ger, unless full sealed combs have been
set aside for this purpose; otherwise the
late unsealed honey may be extracted, and
good sugar syrup be substituted.
There are many localities where fall
flowers abound, and where the principal
surplus Of the year gathered this month.
In harvesting fall honey, the extractor is
i1UaZ1t06ze, for the bees will not store the
honey in boxes when combs must be
built, nearly so fast as in the brood cham
Der, where instinct teaches them it must
be filled for winter. This is also good
month to introduce new blood into the
apiarY. Keep no queenless stocks after
this month, unless it is intended to intro
duce ueenS, in which case one or two
combs of Matching brood, from stocks
that can best spare them, should be in
serted, in order to secure young bees for
winter If there are still surplus boxes
on, it is quite necessary to keep the cap
of hive warm at night by artificial means,
as the bees are very apt to laave boxes
boxes when the nights are cool, and thus
retard their work to such an extent that
we have many unfinished boxes, where,
with the necessary warmth, they would
have been completed.
Where the honey harvest ceased last
month, the bees may now be divided. CIV
ing them young queens. The honey flow
of this month will enable them to get in
good condition by the time they go into
winter quarters. Where any stocks have
old queens, these should be destroyed, and
young queens introduced. With a little
care, the supply of queens can be kept
on hand. At this time of the year, should
feeding be necessary for this purpose
feed as fast as possible, unless it is desired
to stimulate brood rearing, when the en-
trance feeder may be used with good
effect. Keep the queens laying as long
as possible, to have populous stock.
STRANGER, TEXAS,
Sept. 9th, 1887.
To the Editor of the Standard:
A few hundred miles travel over our
country will perhaps in no direction pre-
sent greater changes in climate, produc-
tions, customs and institutions of the peo-
pie than from Mason and Dixon's line
southwark. The North and the South
have each their peculiar and distinctive
features, rendered more at variance be-
cause of the dearth of intercourse and the
excess of hostility that so unfortunately
existed for a number of years, between
the sections. Hence to visitor from the
North the South is replete with interest.
AT eight o'clock z. M. we rolled over
the bridge that spans the Chic, bidding
farewell to the frigid North to greet as a
home the sunny South. Rolling on
through the darkness we awoke next
morning to strange discovery. What
was our chagrin, when far down among
the tobacco fields of southern Kentucky
upon listening to the conversation in the
car we became cognizant of the deplora-
BILE fact that the Enslish language had
lost every vestige of an "r'! The 'con-
ductah" called out "All aboa'd"; the gen.
tleman breakfasting at the hotel demand
ed "Waitah, bring me a glass of ce-watah
sah'; the perspiring young lady remarked
to the gentleman at her side, "The wealth
alb is awfully wahm this mawning," and
so On al 5aatiaitatna for quantity and style.
One of the noticeable features of Ken
lucky is its immense tobacco-fields. [
had seen in Ohio what 1 considered large
tobacco-patches, but when stretching out
over the country were twenty-five to fifty
acres in one tobacco-patch 1 confess it
was new scene.
Crossing the Cumberland and Tennes-
see rivers then first broke upon my view
a field of growing cotton. All [ had read
or heard of cotton had given me no just
conception of it, and my first sight of it
grew in the fields, was indeed surprise
At Il distance it reminded me of field of
buckwheat that had grown up without
much blossom. Upon nearer view, how
ever, it presents a marked difference; the
leaves and the flower are much larger,
and the latter much fewer. Then there
are the beautiful boils of snowy cotton
that load the stems in good seasons, but
which this year on account of the pro-
tracted drought are few and small in
eastern and central Texas. In general,
however, the cotton crop is good, the an
nual yield being estimated at 100000
bales, the best yield heretofore being less
than 100000 bales in 1886. Not to weary
YOU this time with too extensive an arti-
Gle, promise soon to give you some notes
upon the country here, crops, vegetation,
climate, ETC.
J. Z. BLAIR.
If the Democratic party could sup
press the newspapers and telegraphs,
there might be some hope Of teaching
the people Of this country the Demo-
cratic party was worthy of trust. But
it cannot be done under existing con-